New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-06-01
Welded IN DEATH.
. Chapter from the Grim Story of Charleston's
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Bombardment.
Philadelphia Press.
Across the level tongue of land from
which the battle-scarred, earthquake
shaken city OF Charleston looks East
ward stretch the grass covered mounds
which are all that is left of the mighty
notifications that Lee and Beaure-
gard built and armed nearly a quar-
ter OF a century ago. Approaching
the bank Tapped by the lazy wavelets
Of the Ashley, these traces Of the de-
tensive works OF that era ran North
ward OF a peaceful burial-gr ound in
which the dropping branches of the
magnolia and palmetto trees sweep
the tops of the stones that record the
names OF men and women who have
found rest beneath that sod in the
generations that have passed since the
stalwart and splendid Huguenot pill
grims who have escaped Carriere's
massacre established the city
and the state. A perpetual peace
dwells upon the spot; the fra
lance OF roses and magnolias per-
!. INES the atmosphere; the remnants of
ne forts have been smoothed by the
indomitable hand OF time into fitting
semblance with the scene; veterans of
the arboreal growth the scars OF the
shot and shell that once whistled and
screamed from the great guns of Dahl
green's monitors and Gilmore's batter
les over this lovely Gods Acre OF the
Southern land; and between the leaf
age OF the sturdy trees the visitor
catches gllmpses OF famous old St.
Michaels splre and all the broad and
beautiful vista OF river, city and sea
that extends to the horizon of the At
lantlc. 1t is the ancient and venera-
BILE cemetery OF Christ Church Parish.
around which Beauregard drew his
mllitery lines OF decentralization and
so brought the rude and noisy hustle
OF war into intrusion upon the ever
! lasting sleep OF South Carolinians
who had preached notification and
talked states rights five iustrums be-
ffore speech became powder and shot
and bloodshed.
( The western sun bathes in golden
iglory one OF the most prominent mon
suments in this city OF the dead-a
Slender and graceful marble shaft
browning turfed bullock that from
time to time blooms with the profit
gate beauty OF flowers that bespeaks
assiduous and indefatigable care for
the memory Of the tenant OF the tomb.
= On the face that is turned toward the
sunset is the inscription:
MARGARET PICKENs De ROCHELLE.
DEC. oath, 1864.
r When South Carolina seeded from
I the Union and lit the fire OF the civil
war her governor was Francis w. Pick
ems, a member OF the slave-holding
arlstocracy that boosted of It's blue
blood and, like the feudal system of
men and women. TO that rank Gov
ernor Plckens was entitled, and of
all the fair and lovable women to
whom his distinguished family had
given birth no one was sweeter or
more beautiful than the daughter
who, when Major Anderson lowered
the flag on Sumter, was budding into
a charming womanhood. It has .peen
truly said that the war was prolong-
ed by the courage and PERSISTENCE
with wdlich the women of the South
lmbued the men. No history has
ever adequately told the sacrifices
that they made, the suffering that
they patiently endured to cheer and
prompt the soldiers and sailors who
served under the banner of the best
cause. Nowhere between the Poto.
mae and the Mexican Gulf was their
spirit OF answering devotion more
manifest and active than in the CAP
ital OF the Keystone State OF the
Southern Confederacy; and there was
no patriotic project mooted in which
women could share to which Margaret
Plckens did not contribute.
Turning back to the Charleston
newspapers of the war epoch, her
name is found a hundred tim,s upon
their worn and fading pages. InlS62
the women OF the city turned their
iewelry, their diamonds gems that
had come down to them from their
Huguenot and English ancestors
their silver plate and inn umerable ar
tlcles OF brio .a-brac into the money
that paid for the ironclad ship OF. war
Palmetto State that On January 81,
1858. sunk the United States gum
boat Mercedita in a battle in Charles
ton Harbor. In the enterprise ofrais-
ing the construction fund Margaret
,Pickens was proficient and untirins.
She stripped herself of her jewelry,
and she figured in a leading capacity
at the fair or bazaar at which the wom-
en- sold their treasures that "The La
dies" Gunboa5" might be built. A
bright young English1nan, who
had come into Charleston as
an officer of one of the blockade
runners, saw her On that occasion and
worshiped her through the medium OF
q letter to friend i'll Liverpool that
found its way into the columns of the
Liverpool Mercury He wrote;
II have seen tonight the lpveliest
girl that my eyes ever gazed upon and
the SIGHT of her was worth tho o,1inaa